His response to Henry’s desire to travel home is a strange mixture of welcome and repulse, a recognition of their sibling ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Nora Fulton’s poem “ ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

It seemed obvious in planning a number devoted to humor that The Paris Review should approach Harold Bloom, the distinguished Yale academic and critic, author of the recently published The Western ...

A painting in Blair Hobbs’s new exhibition features a cut-out drawing of Flannery O’Connor in a pearl choker and purple ...

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

"Many years ago, the first and only time I ever did acid, I looked down at my hands and noticed that they were not, in fact, ...

This week our friend Sasha Frere-Jones was kind enough to share his good counsel. By day, Sasha is the pop critic for The New Yorker, and by night he is a member of the bands Calvinist and Piñata. By ...

PLEASE wake up! No matter what cavern idiots tell you in the back of your mind, look at these stones and understand what they ...